Category: Cultural Stewardship
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An Ode to Wendell Berry: A True Kentucky Steward
R. M. True Yesterday, while holding my daughter less than a day after her birth, I learned that Wendell Berry had passed away. The timing was difficult to ignore, though perhaps not for the reasons one might expect. Death and birth are often pressed into service as symbols, and perhaps there is some truth in…
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The Kentucky Steward Enters Professional Services Agreement With Trimble County
R. M. True | Founder, Managing Director In September, The Kentucky Steward LLC entered into a professional services agreement with Trimble County, assuming a technical advisory role to support the county’s infrastructure planning and development efforts. This partnership includes direct consultation with the Fiscal Court and Planning and Zoning Committee, with a particular focus on…
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The Little Stewards Visit Payne Hollow
The Kentucky Steward LLC, R. M. True The Kentucky Steward LLC Returns to Payne Hollow In June 2024, The Kentucky Steward LLC returned to Payne Hollow to witness some trail erosion remedies that were designed upon request by Payne Hollow on the Ohio—the non-profit that has assumed the care and stewardship of Harlan and Anna…
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Opposition to “Anti-Kentucky” Senate Bill 89: A Review of Kentucky Groundwater Contamination and Call for Fellow Stewards
The Kentucky Steward LLC, R. M. True “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.” The Kentucky Steward testifies to the House Standing Committee of Natural Resources and Environment in Opposition to SB 89 On March 12, 2025 The Kentucky Steward testified to the House Standing Committee of Natural Resources…
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The Kentucky Steward’s Opposition to SB 89: A Bill of Unethical Stewardship
Senate Bill 89 (SB 89) is not an issue of pro-coal industry or anti-coal industry, just as it is not pro-landfill or anti-landfill, or their like. This is a pro-environment or anti-environment bill, which in simpler terms, can be justly considered pro-Kentucky or anti-Kentucky. SB 89 proposes to redefine the waters of the Commonwealth, stripping…
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The Kentucky Steward Visits Payne Hollow: A Preserved Place of Stewardship
R. M. True The Kentucky Steward LLC Visits Payne Hollow In October 2024, The Kentucky Steward LLC was welcomed by Payne Hollow on the Ohio to visit Payne Hollow—the homestead established by famed writer and painter Harland Hubbard and his lovely wife, Anna—to investigate some groundwater issues which has caused soil erosion and instability to…